Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about why great things always begin from the inside.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So there's a quote by Jim Quick.

Jim Quick is the brain performance coach who has a popular podcast, popular speaker.

And he says, if an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends.

But if it's broken by an inside force, life ends. But if it's broken by an inside force, life begins.

Great things always begin from the inside.

I like this.

I think this is one of those quotes where we go, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense at least that was my impression

when first hearing it it's a it's a nice example one of an egg how force from the outside yes

life ends from the inside though that's a beginning of the life of life so two things breaking but

different potential meanings now Now, does this totally translate into our own life? I don't think entirely. I think one of the interesting things about

outside, things breaking from the outside, meaning life hitting us pretty hard, is that, yeah, that can cause

trauma, that can cause significant pain. And it can also cause us to meet those moments for something

within us to be activated, to meet what is arising. So I don't think just because there's a force from the outside for us, it means that life

is ending, of course.

But I do think there's also something nice about this idea of breaking our shell, our metaphorical

shell from the inside and how the process of change can often feel like something

is breaking. We're emerging out of a shell, a former self that we were embodying, that we knew

well, is now starting to shift. Our belief systems are starting to shift, our sense of what was previously

predictable, what we understood, the things we thought, again, the things that we believed, like all

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